Middletown, CT: Seth Richards, 1815. Second Edition. 12mo (18cm). Contemporary full marbled sheep, titled in gilt on spine; plain endpapers; 204pp; wood-engraved frontispiece. Ownership inscriptions to front pastedown. Sound, externally rubbed with minor wear, internally rubbed and foxed, with horizontal tears to three early leaves, frontispiece and title page somewhat..... More

Moskva: "Sovetskii Khudozhnik" 1982. First Edition. Slim quarto (30cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 11pp. & unnumbered leaves of colored plates. Some wear and chipping to jacket extremities, else Fine in Very Good jacket. Catalog of Soviet maritime paintings, text almost entirely in Russian, save list of reproductions..... More

Philadelphia: Henry F. Anners, 1845. First American Edition. Nautical tale by the prolific English sailor and author, often writing under the pseudonym the "Old Sailor." This a minor work for children, recounting the adventures of young Frank Fairfield, who becomes a cabin boy and sails to Jamaica, falls ill with..... More

Santa Cruz: Odin Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 157pp; illus. Fine, unread copy in unworn dustwrapper - as-new. Well-researched biography of the Norwegian-American labor leader, co-founder of both the Sailor's Union of the Pacific and the International Seamen's Union. More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1923. First Edition. First impression. Autographed letter tipped on to front pastedown, addressed to a C.L.P. Scott, Cambridge, dated January, 1924. Octavo; deep olive cloth, titled in black on spine and front cover; frontispiece and three unnumbered leaves of color plates; text illus. A straight, tight copy..... More

Rochester: M.T. Gardner, 1848. 32mo (12cm.); publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 192pp.; woodcut frontispiece, text illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, small chip at spine foot, textblock uniformly foxed, else Very Good and sound. The adventures of Sammy, who reads "Two Years Before the Mast" and is inspired to embark..... More

Philadelphia: David McKay, N.d. (ca 1920s). Reprint. Small octavo (19cm). Attractively rebound (20th c.) in quarter maroon morocco over hand-marbled boards; 385pp, seven inserted leaves of color plates (including frontispiece). Fine. Pretty copy of this celebrated first-person account of life on a 19th-century whaler. Originally published in 1898, the work..... More

New York: Printed for the Naval History Society by the De Vinne Press, 1917. First Thus. Limited to 700 copies of which this is no. 252. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's vegetable vellum-backed paper-covered boards, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt; li,[3],303pp.; frontispiece and three leaves of plates..... More

Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1978. First Edition. Vol. 1: Report of the Independent Inquiry conducted by The Hon. Sir Sydney Frost. Vol. 2: Papers commissioned by the Inquiry conducted by The Hon. Sir Sydney Frost. Octavo (25cm). Two volumes in blue paper wraps; vol. I: [xii],342pp; vol. II: vi,[220]pp;..... More

Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1982. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (25cm). Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 238pp; illus. Small scuff to base of front cover, else Near Fine in the original illustrated dustwrapper, Near Fine. From the library of noted zoologist James G Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the..... More

London: Sampson Low Marston & Co., (1949). First Edition. First impression. Octavo (22cm). Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 243pp; frontispiece; 32 inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Tight, straight and clean, Near Fine, in the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 18s on front flap), lightly soiled on rear panel and with a...... More

Clifton: Augustus M. Kelley, 1972. Octavo (24cm). Blue cloth, titled in gilt; xiv,355pp; frontispiece. Straight and sound, with gentle rubbing and minor dustiness: Very Good. More

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1898. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Publisher's blue cloth, titled in gilt; plain endpapers; 384pp; 113 plates and maps. Straight but rubbed, binding shaken with a few gatherings pulled: Good. More